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Diverse Rodentia: Squirrel, Cuban Hutia, and Lemming-like Rodent, 1845
1845 · Views & Engravings

Diverse Rodentia: Squirrel, Cuban Hutia, and Lemming-like Rodent, 1845

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Date
1845
Kind
Views & Engravings
Size
26.5 × 17 cm (10.4 × 6.7 in)
Condition
Good. Good. Border on the left side roughly cut. Aged paper with typically warm, yellowish-brown hue. Light offset and browning, mainly around the edges. Please study the image carefully.
Period
Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places
Cuba
Reference
BG-13261-131
What the condition grades mean
Excellent
Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good
Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good
Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair
Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.

Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.

Guaranteed original. This is an original of the period stated, not a later reproduction or print-on-demand copy. If it is ever shown to be otherwise, we refund you in full.
Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured. Delivery and import charges.

About this piece

A plate of three rodents from Pierre Auguste Joseph Drapiez's Dictionnaire Classique des Sciences Naturelles, published in 1845. The sheet is an engraving with original hand color, engraved by Desmares. The three animals are lettered below: "1. Ecureuil a ventre dore, Sciurus aureventer", "2. Houtia de Poey, Capromys Poeyi" and "3. Lemming vulgaire, Georychus lemmus".

The golden-bellied squirrel is drawn at the lower center, standing upright on a dead branch, with a long plume of a tail that curves up the side of the sheet. The hutia of Poey, a heavy dark-furred rodent with a long scaly tail and a pale underside, is placed at the top, and the small dark lemming is in the middle. The hutia, Capromys poeyi, is a rodent of Cuba.

Drapiez was a Belgian naturalist, and his Dictionnaire was issued in Brussels in 1845.

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